International Criminal Court

The precedent-setting three-year trial showed that Lubanga fought to control the resource-rich northeastern Ituri region of Congo in 2002 and 2003, using children as young as eight as bodyguards, sex slaves and fighters.

The international war crimes court at The Hague found Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty on Wednesday in its first ever ruling after a decade of work limited largely to Africa while major cases elsewhere remain beyond its reach

WEEKEND ROUNDUP Paging John Gomery Just how bad could the Robocon scandal get for Stephen Harper’s Tories? “We do not know for a fact that the [robo-calls] came from anyone acting on the authority of the Conservative party,” Postmedia’s Andrew Coyne muses. “But, well, let’s say it fits a pattern — if not of outright […]

When you’ve been a tyrant most of your adult life it can be difficult to change, and Robert Mugabe isn’t the sort of man to try. Other than a stint as a Catholic school boy, the President of Zimbabwe has either been leading a bush war for control of the country, or driving it into […]

The choice of a Sudanese general to head an Arab League mission in Syria has alarmed activists, who say Sudan’s own defiance of a war crimes tribunal means the monitors are unlikely to recommend strong action against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.

The death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday.

ICC prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo arrives in Tripoli for talks New cabinet includes several surprise appointments Cabinet must balance rival interests and factions By Francois Murphy and Ali Shuaib TRIPOLI — Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) on Tuesday named a new government featuring several surprise appointments that suggested the line-up was aimed at trying to soothe rivalries […]

By Lee Berthiaume OTTAWA — International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says his office will be releasing a report in the coming weeks that will decide whether to launch a formal investigation into Canada’s treatment of Afghan detainees, among other things. “There are serious allegations of crimes committed by different parties,” he said in an […]